Oracle (Product)

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10gDEFINITION: Oracle (in ancient Greece, someone in touch with the deities; from Latin, oraculum ordivine announcement) says it is the world's leading supplier of software for information managementbut it is best known for its sophisticated relationaldatabase products (notably Oracle9i), which are used in Fortune 1000 corporations and by manyof the largest Web sites. Oracle's relational database was the world's
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This white paper discusses how Oracle BPM empowers businesses to optimize their processes. Inside, learn how you can effectively participate in the entire process lifecycle – starting from definition, feedback, modeling, design through implementation, and management of business processes.

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Enterprises across all industries turn to service-oriented architecture (SOA) to reduce the complexity and accelerate the delivery of new composite applications, but it's often difficult to choose the right tools for SOA. In this interactive e-book, get an overview of one technology -- the Oracle SOA Suite -- in the customers' words.

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In this resource, discover a comprehensive integration suite of products custom-designed to meet your SOA and IT management goals. Learn about the capabilities of this SOA suite and how you can maximize its effectiveness with an enterprise service bus (ESB) by reading now.

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Access this white paper today to explore the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of one such BPM tool. Inside, learn more about what this tool offers and discover if it's an option that would fit your particular business needs.

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When searching for a BPM suite to fit their organization's needs, many are struck by the fact that implementation would be faster, less costly, and a better match to the user expectations if they could do some of the implementation themselves. This product report examines the ways in which Oracle BPM Suite 11g embraces this very challenge.

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Access this in-depth resource to gain an understanding of fast data technologies and why they are the next chapter of the big data saga. And learn of some tools from Oracle that offer you the ability to make informed decisions fast.

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With all the buzz surrounding big data, it's essential not to overlook the importance of fast data. This in-depth resource takes an inside look at the promise of fast data. Inside, learn how your business can leverage the right technologies in order to ingest and act on data in real time or near real time.

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In this comprehensive resource, find out how you can deliver high performing applications with low risk and easy manageability by leveraging next-generation service-oriented architecture (SOA) tools.

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In this resource, explore the offerings from Oracle when it comes to analytics and BI for CRM, sales, marketing, customer service, contact centers, and more. Discover the capabilities and benefits of these pre-built applications, and find out how implementing them in your organization can deliver real-time insights for better business decisions.

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In this informative resource, discover how augmenting transactional applications with analytics enables you to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Find out how you can regain competitive advantage by making better business decisions faster, thanks to analytics.

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This Total Economic Impact report from Forrester Consulting offers an in-depth look at the capabilities, benefits, and potential financial impact of Oracle business intelligence (BI) applications.

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This paper examines five reasons why line of business managers should consider business applications delivered using the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, and, in particular, why they should consider SaaS business applications from Oracle.

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Access this resource now to find out how a Management-as-a-Service (MaaS) technology can deliver maintenance, support, and lifecycle management for your entire Oracle application portfolio. Read on to learn how you can get on-demand access to a global network of Oracle app specialists, to get greater value from your Oracle environment.

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This white paper provides insight into a leading vendor's optimized technology for tiered storage infrastructure – offering the flexibility to scale both capacity and performance independently while also keeping storage costs low and providing reliable data protection over many years.

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This paper provides a discussion of the business needs for an integrated content management solution and the value of implementing such a strategy through the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management.

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Looking for a storage platform that stands out amongst the most competitive approaches? Take a look at this short analyst report to learn about Oracle's ZFS unified storage platform. Check it out now to view the specs and key advantages.

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This resource will help you learn how to run Oracle 3x faster, provide active-active Oracle availability across long distances, and standardize infrastructure without changing existing software assets or processes. Read on to discover more.

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In order for HR to truly deliver on the promise of being "business partners," it needs to tell the story of business scenarios that are predicted to happen in the future, across all levels of the organization, which they do not already know about, and then provide recommendations on how to fix or exploit those scenarios.

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Watch this brief video to learn how you can provide consistent and relevant answers fast on channels from self-service website queries to social media- increasing customer loyalty and reducing costs in the process.

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In today's hyper-competitive market, the key differentiator is the ability to deliver multichannel customer service consistently. And due to tight budgets, many of the world's most successful organizations choose to deliver customer service in the cloud. Read on to discover the benefits of this approach.

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Access this guidebook which explores the experiences of Oracle RightNow customers and highlights best practices they have taken to enable agents to deliver the right answers at the right time, driving increased customer service productivity and increased customer satisfaction.

ORACLE (PRODUCT) DEFINITION (continued): first to support theStructured Query Language (SQL), nowan industry standard. When CEO Lawrence J. Ellison and a few associates formed Oracle in 1977, theywere out to prove wrong the prevailing theory that relational databases could not be commerciallyviable. As proof of their success, they parlayed an initial $2,000 investment in the company intoan annual revenue exceeding $9.7 billion. Ask your Oracle questions atITKnowledgeExchange.comOracle targets high-end workstations and minicomputers as the server platforms on which to runits database systems. Along with Sun Microsystems, Oracle has

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